Hosts serve panels from their own sites and may refuse other addresses;
Codex refuses any address on the user's machine. The panel now never
requests the app's server: it loads the app's panel build and data
through panel_request, a tool only the panel may call, which requests
the path from the app's server. One path in every host; only map
providers load directly.
npm run build:panel writes the panel build to dist/panel, served at
/panel/: one app script, one stylesheet, Cesium's script, and Cesium's
workers as one script Cesium runs from memory. Tools may now be marked
app-only. The panel CORS rules are gone.
show_on_globe replaces open_in_gods_eye_view and names an MCP Apps view, a
ui:// panel that loads the app in embed mode and posts each later view to it,
so the globe in the conversation changes without reloading. It also takes a
view another answer returned. Tools can declare a UI resource, and the MCP
adapter serves resources/list and resources/read and lists each tool's
resource in _meta.ui.resourceUri.
?embed=1 shows the globe alone: clean view with the HUD, panels, welcome and
setup prompts hidden, and provider attribution kept. The page that frames it
sends views with postMessage; the app applies each through its own actions
and reports every step. Annotations in any link are drawn once it restores.
Only embed-mode documents may be framed; every other page keeps
X-Frame-Options DENY and frame-ancestors 'none', and
GEV_EMBED_FRAME_ANCESTORS can restrict who frames them.
Tool answers with something to show now include data.view: the view with
the matching layers on, the area framed from above or a single aircraft or
satellite followed, and the link that opens it. Area framing moves to
src/tools/views.js so links and answers frame alike.
A view is a camera, data layers, visual style, map imagery and an aircraft,
military aircraft or satellite to follow, written in the share-link format
the app already restores. gods-eye-view/view builds, encodes and decodes one,
and share links take their style names from it. open_in_gods_eye_view now
builds its link from a full view: an area or camera, layers, style, map and
something to follow.
The voice instructions recommended aircraft_in_area, vessels_in_area and
get_earthquakes, which voice no longer offers, and the docs said voice gets
nearly every query. The instructions now name tools voice has and send
aircraft, ship and hazard questions to analyst_query; a test keeps the
instructions to tools the voice session lists.
situation_brief, military_awareness and the HUD caption called other tools
directly, so replaced tools and interceptors did not apply to their sections.
Tools now reach each other through the catalog, and interceptors see these
calls with the calling tool as parent. Surfaces become a view over the
composed catalog, so a composite offered on voice keeps sections that voice
does not list.
Reworks #568 to the shape asked for in review.
Generalized from "AQHI" to a provider-backed Air quality layer, with ECCC's
AQHI as the first registered provider. Readings are carried as
{ provider, scale, value, band } rather than a bare number, because
air-quality indices are not interchangeable: AQHI runs 1-10+ on health risk,
the US AQI runs 0-500 on concentration breakpoints, and Europe's EAQI is a
five-step category. Naming the index a value belongs to is what lets another
network be added without inventing a shared numeric meaning. Coverage is
stated as "Canada only" on the provider, the layer row and the card.
Adds the WEATHER panel readout (readout: true) carrying the band legend and
the worst readings currently in view, with getRowControls/setRowControlsListener
following the wind and cyclone cards. An unresolvable view rectangle degrades
to the worst readings overall rather than to a blank card, and a rectangle
crossing the antimeridian is handled.
update() now takes the earthquakes layer's abort-and-guard shape: it aborts any
in-flight request, passes the signal through to the source, and refuses to
touch the scene when the request was superseded, aborted, or the layer was
disabled while it was outstanding. disable() and destroy() abort too. Tests
cover the late-response, superseded-refresh and disabled-update paths.
Rebased on main: the source is registered in src/sources/reference.js, and the
allocation profile was re-measured against the current worker — median 3,900
B/frame, max 4,114, 85.7 B/candidate, inside the shared 154 ceiling, budgeted
at 5,200 for 26% headroom. The earlier figures no longer held.
Freshness is now judged on the observation time rather than on when the last
response arrived. lastUpdate only says the feed answered; a station that keeps
returning a reading from four hours ago would otherwise be narrated as live by
the HUD and the voice provenance envelope. getStats() reports observedAt and
stale, so layerFeedState() calls the layer stale past two missed hourly
publications, and degraded when a refresh fails over readings that are still
good.
The share-link token is 0, which is what layer-token:next allocates. Taking it
moves the ledger fixtures that had hard-coded 0 as the free digit and 3 as the
one after; those shift to 3 and 4. The pinned equality between the reservation
ledger and LEGACY_LAYER_STATE_TOKENS also had to become "the closed legacy set
plus air-quality", since that set is documented as never growing. Happy to
re-pin this differently if you would rather the fixtures derive the provisional
digits from nextLayerStateToken() so the next layer does not move them again.
The layer and its source are registered as ./layers/air-quality and
./layers/air-quality/source, each with its own boundary group, following the
perimeters pair. check:boundaries requires the package exports and the group
exports to be the same set, so a layer that ships a source needs both.
One add/add conflict, in scripts/format-scope.json: upstream's twelve new
entries and this branch's two. Both kept — 866 entries on main, 868 here,
none dropped.
Gates on the result: npm test 5397 passing, build, test:track 109/109,
changelog:check, format:check, check:boundaries, layer-token:check.
keep contacts counts, rows, scope and provenance on one retained snapshot
report capped cohorts as lower bounds
separate sibling tool cancellation from newer user turns
align track_entity validation across runtime and benchmark paths
The raycast challenge on #768 showed bare-earth casting misplacing roads
that are not at grade: lines floated over freeways in trenches and steep
streets (rendered line pixels floating: Austin 8.5%, SF 27.1%, LA 43.8%),
because a ~111 m terrain grid cannot see a 30 m-wide cut or a slope between
its corners.
meshSampler.js samples the rendered Google 3D surface (scene.sampleHeight,
overlays excluded) once per ~11 m cell within 900 m of the camera, nearest
first, in idle time within a 6 ms budget; misses are retried, not latched.
groundCast.refineHeights blends it in, per point along a line:
- mesh up to 3 m above bare earth is the road: follow it, 1 m above;
- higher mesh (canopy, deck, roof): carry the road's offset from bare earth
across from the road samples on both sides (up to 8 points);
- otherwise bare earth + 2 m, as before.
Lines, cones and the marker use it; tiles touched by new samples are
redrawn one per idle slice with the no-blink swap.
Rendered line pixels on the surface / floating, before -> after:
Austin 90.0 -> 95.3% / 8.5 -> 0.7%; SF 69.0 -> 86.4% / 27.1 -> 9.1%;
LA 52.3 -> 91.0% / 43.8 -> 4.0%; Innsbruck 95.0 -> 95.7% / 0.2 -> 0.2%;
Sacramento 80.7 -> 79.3% / 3.8 -> 2.7%; buried lines stay under 1%.
Cones floating in SF 44 -> 5%, buried at LA 59 -> 28%. Main-thread long
tasks added during refinement: at most 134 ms (Austin, densest tile).
Roads on elevated decks are still drawn at ground level under the deck.
Unit tests cover the blend (trench, slope, canopy bridge, deck, bad probe),
the finer cast with meshAt, and the sampler (once per cell, nearest first,
overlays excluded, far cells skipped, misses not latched, idle when off).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Unknown aircraft tracks read as empty instead of a server error, aircraft
info names the aircraft and flight, the HUD caption sends the app's caption
context, and satellite pass, satellites overhead and nearby places take a
place name or point like the other tools.
Add find_alpr_cameras over the layer's OpenStreetMap camera extracts:
cameras in a US or Canadian area of at most 3° per side, nearest first,
with operator, manufacturer and facing direction, and the source's
attribution. Areas outside coverage or too wide are reported.
Add find_submarine_cables over the bundled TeleGeography data: cables
passing through or landing in an area, or matching a name, with landing
points and the dataset's attribution. The local MCP server's fetch reads
the bundled data files a browser would load by URL, and nothing outside
that directory.
Add get_recent_imagery. It searches the recent Harmonized Landsat and
Sentinel-2 catalog for an area, picks the image the layer would show
with the layer's own ranking, and returns it with its date, sensor and
cloud cover, falling back to the VIIRS daily overview.
Add get_weather_map, which returns the latest NOAA radar, satellite or
lightning map over an area as an image, choosing a window the image
route accepts and reporting areas outside the product's coverage, and
get_wind, which samples GFS or IFS wind at a location with the wind
layer's own grid sampling.
open_in_gods_eye_view accepts layers and writes them with the app's own
share-link layer codec, so the link opens with those layers on. Layer
names are limited to the registered layer ids.
Move the composition of the default tool services from the Node MCP
server into gods-eye-view/tools/services, a portable export. Given a
fetch that resolves the sources' /api paths, it builds the same services
in a browser as on the local MCP server, so other surfaces can compose
the same catalog. Queries still read only their services.
Mount the local MCP server at /mcp on the development and preview
servers for clients that connect by URL. The route accepts only
requests from this machine that name a loopback host and, when an
Origin is sent, come from a loopback origin, and drains oversized
bodies so the 413 response is delivered. The provider-order regression
test now pins the route between the providers and the API fallback.
Add open_in_gods_eye_view. It builds a version 2 share link looking
straight down on an area, with altitude chosen from the area's size, on
the app address the application supplies.
Add get_traffic_flow over the traffic source's TomTom flow tiles. It
reports average speed as a share of free-flow speed, congested and
closed road length, and a breakdown by road category, stepping down a
zoom level when an area needs more tiles than the source reads at once.
Add vessels_in_area, find_vessel and get_vessel_track over the live
vessel source, and a ships section in situation_brief. Without an AIS
key the source's own message reaches clients as an unavailable feed.
Add get_weather, get_regional_brief, get_cyclones, get_fire_perimeters,
get_terrain_height, find_military_installations and get_map_features
over the application request services and the layers' sources.
situation_brief combines weather, earthquakes, fires, aircraft and
cyclones for an area by reusing those tools, marking sections that are
unavailable instead of failing. get_hud_caption returns the app's
heads-up display caption for the same overview.
Add get_bike_share over the public GBFS systems and get_transit_vehicles
over the GTFS-Realtime feeds. Each finds the systems or feeds whose
coverage reaches the area, reads up to three, and reports any that were
unavailable instead of failing the whole answer. Transit results carry
each feed's attribution and license.
Add search_places and places_nearby over the app's Google Places routes,
and plan_route over its OpenStreetMap routing. The place search service
reports when no search key is configured, so an unconfigured server is
not mistaken for an empty result, and rate limits become retry_later.
Route endpoints accept a place name or coordinates.
Add find_cctv_cameras, get_cctv_snapshot and find_radio_stations. A
snapshot returns the camera's current frame as image content with its
credit. Tool results may now carry base64 images, which the MCP adapter
sends as image content.
Add aircraft_in_area, find_aircraft, get_aircraft_track and
get_aircraft_info over the live aircraft sources, with an optional
military feed, and next_satellite_pass and satellites_overhead over the
satellite catalog and the existing pass predictor.
Source failures from the live contract now become tool errors with the
matching code, so a rate limit reaches clients as retry_later with a
wait time. Tool schemas may use pattern.
Define tools that answer questions from the app's data once, independent
of the surface that exposes them. A tool declares its arguments and the
services it reads; applications compose tools with their own services and
optional call interceptors. Queries reuse the layers' portable source
factories, so they run wherever an application routes /api requests.
The first queries are get_earthquakes, get_active_fires and
get_recent_launches, with a shared area argument (place name, bounding
box, or point and radius) and capped lists.
gods-eye-view/tools/mcp adapts a catalog to the Model Context Protocol
with a small JSON-RPC handler and a stateless HTTP transport, adding no
dependencies. npm run mcp serves Core's tools over stdio to local clients
such as Claude Code, reading from a running app. Both exports are
portable and checked by check:boundaries; the app does not import them.
docs/TRANSLATORS.md is rewritten for the foundation state: English
shipped, and the locale-addition recipe front and center — the
one-PR-per-locale procedure (catalogs, registration, CATALOG_LOCALES,
pair behavior, parity gates). CURRENT-STATE.md documents the subsystem
(file map, resolution order, selector, gates, deferrals) and the
CHANGELOG records the foundation.
Vessels move only when a poll lands, yet enabling the layer held the
continuous render loop for its lifetime, so a parked vessels-only scene
rendered every frame. The layer now:
- requests a frame for every forced visibility pass (new data, selection);
- leaves one trailing frame when the camera moved inside the 800 ms
visibility cadence, so the view the camera stopped on is evaluated. It is
keyed to camera motion alone: the pass's own label publication requests a
frame, and scheduling on that looped at ~1.2 Hz;
- holds 'ais-vessels' only while focus emphasis is animating.
The 80 ms focus pass, which runs while anything is tracked, also skips hidden
sprites whose focus state is at rest (new spriteFocusAtRest) and whose alpha
is already 1: advancing them changes nothing, and with a 12k worldwide feed
they are most of the fleet.
Measured: a parked vessels-only scene (headless SwiftShader) went from
continuous mode and 28 frames in 5 s to idle and 0; horizon visibility had no
mismatches after the camera moved and settled. The focus pass over 12,000
vessels (11,353 hidden) went from ~4.0 ms to ~1.2 ms.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- Voice layer manifest (src/voice/layerManifest.js) generates the layer enums,
aliases and analyst field hints; a test fails when a catalog layer has no entry.
- analyst_query validates fields, operators, units, values and scopes, counts up
to 250,000 loaded records per layer, reports complete/partial/unanswered, tells
LAYER_OFF / NOT_READY / FEED_UNAVAILABLE apart from zero, refuses mismatched
follow-ups and never lets a superseded query replace follow-up memory. Seven
more layers expose analyst records.
- Tool results carry a code-built say line and a display card; the voice card in
the mic control shows captions, plan steps and the result
(src/voice/resultDisplay.js is the one adapter). Slow tools narrate their
current step out of band; holding Space while the assistant talks cuts it off.
Turn spans go to the debug log; caption transcription is metered; the log
omits what was said unless GEV_VOICE_LOG_CONTENT=1.
- Point and ask: the Space-down pointer snapshot resolves "this", "that one" and
"around here" through 'pointer' targets, and "the second one" through
referent:n from the last numbered list.
- Prompt states each policy once (instructions + tools 48.5k -> 46.7k chars).
- Voice benchmark harness (scripts/qa-voice-bench.mjs, scripts/voice-bench/)
shares its phrase table and grading with scripts/qa-voice-routing.mjs.
Traffic roads come from OpenFreeMap vector tiles, or TomTom flow tiles with a
key (Hybrid by default). Military areas use OpenFreeMap polygons with a bundled
worldwide name index; wide views show named points. ALPR reads an hourly
OpenStreetMap extract. Cockpit place context and country, state and US county
outlines use bundled Natural Earth and US Census data. Overpass is used only
when an operator configures their own endpoint.
Also: camera arrivals no longer land below ground, keyless terrain retries on
429, bounded relation geometry for configured Overpass, one shared
OpenStreetMap credit, and separate tile and API transports for embedders.
Co-authored-by: theGaryLarson <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Milan Khanal <[email protected]>
As more sources arrive, each one reads the same everywhere it appears: its
PROVIDERS chip, coverage lines, overview points, image cones and a single
legend swatch. The palette lives in one place, PROVIDER_COLORS in
src/layers/streetLevel/policy.js: Mapillary green (#05cb63), Panoramax
purple, Google Street View blue.
Mapillary drops its age dimming and magenta panoramas: lines and overview
points are Mapillary green, cones are green too and 360° images keep their
ring shape; the 360°/FLAT filter still separates them, and the selected
sequence stays GEV cyan.
The provider contract loses `legend`: `colors.coverage` is the source's one
colour, and the core composes the legend as one swatch per active source
(its name, its colour) followed by Selected. The chip group takes an
optional per-chip colour as a `--chip-color` CSS variable, written only
when it changes; Street Level chips show it as a swatch dot and, while on,
as the chip's border, text and a faint fill.
The feature gate checks the legend has one swatch per source plus Selected
and that the Mapillary chip carries #05cb63.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
fetchTile coalesced concurrent requests for one tile onto a single
upstream fetch, but that fetch ran on the first caller's signal. When the
first request was abandoned (an older pan), every joined request lost a
tile it still needed; and a joined caller that aborted stayed subscribed
until the shared fetch finished.
A flight now owns its AbortController and counts waiters, the pattern the
weather and wind providers use. Each caller's own abort rejects that caller
at once; the upstream fetch is cancelled only when the last waiter leaves,
and a later request after that starts a fresh fetch.
Regression tests (fail on the previous tiles.js, pass now): a joined
request survives the first caller aborting with one upstream request; a
joined caller that aborts leaves at once while the first still gets the
tile; both waiters leaving cancels the owned fetch.
Reported by kvnloo in review.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Brings in #744 (share-link token ledger). package.json: keep the branch's
sorted scripts and add layer-token:next and layer-token:check.
Street Level's token moves from the provisional `3` to `0`: following
CONTRIBUTING, the provisional entry was removed and
`npm run layer-token:next -- street-level` assigned `0` (free digits in
order). It is added to the registry and to
src/data/layerStateTokenReservations.json, and
`npm run layer-token:check -- --base-ref upstream/main` passes (28
published, 1 new). No link with the provisional token was ever published.
Pinned token tests move with the ledger as CONTRIBUTING asks: 29
reservations, next free digit `3`, and the competing-PR and retired-digit
scenarios shift up one free digit (0->3, 3->4) so they still test the same
rules. The README share examples and the free-digit notes in
CONTRIBUTING and CURRENT-STATE now read `0`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Sameh Khamis